Maoist revive parallel governance
kantipuroline.com
By Iahwari Neupane
POKHARA, April 13 - In a boldfaced defiance of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) that entailed the dissolution of all its parallel government units, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) has reopened its United Revolutionary People's Council (URPC) offices – which served as the Maoist government offices in its insurgency heyday – in Lekhnath Municipality.
At a time when the Maoists themselves hold the local development ministry portfolio, the URPC offices have been activated in various wards in Lekhnath Municipality.
Maoist cadres have said that they have received circulars to open URPC offices nationwide.
The Maoist cadres have been putting up signboards proclaiming URPC ward committee in buildings right beside the government's municipal ward offices.
They say that they received a "circular from the centre" asking them to put up People's Council offices equivalent to the level of the government offices.
Lekhnath area commander Darshan informed that the Maoist offices had been put up “to resolve unresolved problems in the government ward offices and for ward office observation."
"URPC offices will be opened … at ward offices, municipal offices, District Development Committee offices. All this is according to the circular," Darshan said.
The Maoist cadres today put up URPC signboard at Lekhnath's Ward No 4 office building. However, after the arrival of journalists, Maoist area commander Bishwaprakash Baral relocated the signboard to a private house stating that placing the board at the ward office had been a mistake.
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Revival of parallel government along with a handsome share in the central political aerena. Doomed Nepal is all I can say!!!
